Mahsa Firoozmand-Sustainable Behaviour Research Group

Mahsa Firoozmand

Email: m.firoozmand@brighton.ac.uk


Research focus: Shared-Values Research


Accredited: Level 5 WeValue Analyst; Level 4 WeValue Facilitator


Role in WeValue team

Mahsa is a researcher in the Values & Sustainability Research Group at the University of Brighton, working under Prof. Harder. She is a certified WeValue Analyst and Facilitator with a strong foundation in qualitative research methods, including interviews, focus groups, content analysis, and theory mapping. Her work contributes to the development of localized shared-values elicitation processes, ethics, and risk assessment in fieldwork. She has supported in mapping WeValue data to external theories such as TLO and mentoring. She also provides administrative and research support to team members in both Brighton and China. Since she has been with the team since 2015, she is an anchor for the team’s organizational memory and archives.


Profile

Mahsa holds a BA Honours in International Development with a minor in Anthropology from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.


Links

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mahsa-Firoozmand/research

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Mahsa+Firoozmand&btnG=


Related Publications

Demonstrating the values-based WeValue InSitu approach to capture hidden intangible benefits of ecosystem services in Nigeria. Sustainability (in print March 2025)

Chike C. Ebido 1,2, Benita C. Odii 1,3, Shehanas Pazhoor 1, Mahsa Firoozmand 4, Andrew Church 4 and Marie K. Harder. 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su17062761


Creating culturally-informed protocols for a stunting intervention using a situated values-based approach (WeValue InSitu ): a double case study in Indonesia and Senegal

Chapman, A. J., Ebido, C. C., Tening, R. N., Huang, Y., Sougou, N. M., Kolopaking, R., Diallo, A. H., Anggorowati, R., Dial, F. B., Massonnié, J., Firoozmand, M., Niang, C. E. H. A. & Harder, M. K., 9 Apr 2024, In: BMC Public Health. 24, 1, 987 (2024). 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18485-y


Local contextual factors of child stunting found via shared values of stakeholder groups: an exploratory case study in Kaffrine, Senegal

Moreno, J. M., Chapman, A. J., Ebido, C. C., Sougou, N. M., Diallo, A. H., Tening, R. N., Dial, F. B., Massonnie, J., Firoozmand, M., Niang, C. E. H. A., Heffernan, C. & Harder, M. K., 8 Jun 2023, In: Public Health Nutrition. 26, 11, p. 2418-2432 15 p. 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980023001088